A2 Bike House Getting Good Usage, Program May Expand to Other Parking Structures

WEMU's Andrew Cluley reports on the success of Ann Arbor's Bike House that opened in the Maynard Street Parking Structure earlier this year.

The success of Ann Arbor's bike house inside the Maynard Street Parking Structure has officials with the Downtown Development Authority and the Get Downtown Program considering putting another one in other parking structures.

Credit Ann Arbor Downtown Development Athority

The enclosed and covered bike house opened in May with space for 30 bikes in what had been two parking spaces.

GetDowntown Program Director, Nancy Shore says the feedback they've gotten from users of the bike house is that it's another valuable option to get to work. She adds that they've also heard that some people that occasionally used a bike to get to work are doing so more frequently now that they have a safe place to store their bike out of the elements.

Shore says the bike house gets the most use from nine-to-five, primarily from people who work in the State Street area.